(Commentary) There is another Cavs team that has been quietly having a phenomenal season of its own. Virginia's baseball team -- which has consistently been one of the top-tier teams in the NCAA -- has emerged as one of the best in college baseball this year, and if you don't pay too much attention to the sport, you may not be aware of just how good the Wahoos have been on the diamond this season.
Minahil Amin, a graduate student in public policy at the University of Virginia’s Batten School, said engagement is the key to active learning, which is the key to student ownership. “The traditional model is still the lecture, and you might sit with your laptop browsing some site and you may or may not pay attention,” Amin said. “That’s a passive way to learn. Ownership means you see a need and you take charge about how you’re going to solve it.”
Thomas Jefferson’s spirit was alive at the University of Virginia on Friday as students frolicked on the terraced Lawn, passed petitions and manned information tables while researchers surveyed an uncovered, 10-foot-deep cistern beside the Rotunda. Inside the Jefferson-designed building, leaders of the university he founded and the keepers of his home, Monticello, met to honor three people for their efforts in Jefferson’s trio of loves — architecture, law and public service. It was a great way to celebrate the UVa founder, who was born 271 years ago on April 13.
Two weeks’ worth of events are planned in Wise to celebrate the inauguration of Chancellor Donna Price Henry. Henry is the eighth chancellor at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, and has been serving as the school’s chancellor since January 2013. She will be formally inaugurated during a 2 p.m. ceremony April 22, but events kick off Monday with the college’s annual celebration of Thomas Jefferson’s birthday.
For the past two days, 22-year-old Mary McCoy has been mercilessly mocked and ridiculed by what feels like the entire internet -- and she says she's loving it.
Social media and technology researcher Danah Boyd likes to tell this story as an illustration of the power of mass data gathering: A couple of years ago, a 16-year-old Minneapolis girl received a mailing advertisement from Target. The ad congratulated her on her pregnancy and suggested she buy some infant care products. The girl’s father was incensed and chewed out the manager of a local Target store. A few days later, the father called the manager to apologize – his daughter was pregnant, and Target’s corporate marketers and statisticians had found out first. They had learne...
Hours after finding his parents dead in their Long Island, N.Y., home, Marty Tankleff admitted to a crime he did not commit. He was 17, shaken and ready to say anything to get out of the police interrogation room after five hours of questioning, said University of Virginia law professor Stephen Braga, who helped to clear Tankleff 18 years later. Braga and two UVa law colleagues, as well as Albemarle County Sheriff J.E. “Chip” Harding and Rutherford Institute founder John W. Whitehead made their case for a Virginia Justice Commission on Sunday at The Haven as part of the Tom Tom Fou...
Despite immense talent and physical gifts that would likely translate into success on the pro tour, Alex Domijan doesn’t want to make tennis his livelihood. Partly inspired by the late Pat Tillman, who spurned a lucrative NFL contract to join the Army Rangers, Domijan is planning a career in the military after his college career is over, with the goal of joining the Navy SEALs. Playing on Senior Day at Snyder Tennis Center on Sunday, Domijan won his singles and doubles matches convincingly as Virginia shut out Wake Forest, 7-0, to notch its ACC-record 117th win and clinch its 11th consec...
And most political experts interviewed agreed the errors are unlikely to prove fatal to McConnell's bid for a sixth term. But "they seem to be rusty," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "Every campaign has a shake-down cruise, but this is a long shake-down."
Richmond has long ignored its role in the slave trade, wiping out historic sites and overlooking the city’s part in the brutal business of human bondage, and the time has come to change that, experts say. “Richmond has obliterated the landscape of that history,” Maurie McInnis, a professor of American art and material culture at the University of Virginia, said Saturday. McInnis, author of “Slaves Waiting for Sale: Visualizing the Southern Slave Trade,” was speaking at a program during Civil War & Emancipation Day.
“There’s Ed Gillespie, and then there’s everyone else. Within political circles, Gillespie is well-known and has had a long career in the field. The other three are near-complete unknowns,” said Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
The DATA Act has four main components to address these problems. First, it reduces the cost of compliance for groups and businesses that receive government contracts, loans, and grants. As Gerald Kane, Assistant Vice President for Research at the University of Virginia, testified before the Task Force, researchers and universities devote large sums of time and money into filing financial compliance reports.
Pooling spousal income also means another kind of marriage penalty. Take low-wage workers thinking about tying the knot. "They're hesitant to marry because they realize that they would experience a significant financial hit by doing so," says Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.
She noted that nearly 20 VCU students who went to a recent Startup Weekend in Charlottesville are now planning a trip to New York City with University of Virginia students who are interested in entrepreneurship.
(Commentary by Geeta Patel, associate professor, Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures and Women, Gender & Sexuality) Queer. If it is translated into Urdu the word gazes in two directions.
Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics said: "We have the Senate at about a tossup for control right now." Kondik said the center's ratings show Republicans with a 49-48 margin with three races rated as tossups: Alaska, Louisiana and North Carolina. "I feel like things look slightly better for Democrats today than they did a month ago, based on polling and other factors," Kondik said.
Former journalist Jose Antonio Vargas sparked a massive debate in 2011 when he revealed his status as an undocumented immigrant who had previously lied about his status to get work. Vargas immediately became one of the most polarizing figures in the national media. He had a crew film those early days, which compiled that time into a documentary titled “Documented.” Saturday afternoon, Vargas arrived at the University of Virginia for two early screenings of the film, which focuses on his revelation and his reconciliation with his estranged mother, who remained in the Philippines.
A Charlottesville-based company is using remote-monitoring technology delivered with a human touch to improve the care of patients who are recovering from conditions such as heart attacks or pneumonia. Often, patients with such health issues wind up being readmitted to the hospital because of inadequate follow-up care or monitoring. Broad Axe Care Coordination has partnered with the University of Virginia Medical Center to address that coverage gap.
UNC released a trio of reports commissioned from outside experts ­– including Dennis Kramer, assistant professor of higher education at the University of Virginia – to rebut Willingham’s findings on freshman athlete reading levels.
Another scholarly study, "Lying in Everyday Life," conducted by a group of scholars at the University of Virginia, Texas A&M University and Pfeiffer College, showed adults lied about two times a day.